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NADIR'S CAMPAIGNS,  1734-6                      89

Turks. He then dispatched some of the Turkish prisoners to Ganja,
Erivan and Tiflis to inform their compatriots there of the victory.1

When, on the 3rd July, the news of the Turkish disaster reached Con-
stantinople, it caused the utmost dismay. The Grand Vizier, 'Ali Pasha
Hakimoghlu, was blamed for the defeat and was dismissed, and Isma'il
Pasha, the Governor of Baghdad, took his place as Grand Vizier. Ahmad
Pasha was made Sar'askar, in succession to the defunct 'Abdullah Pasha,
and was soon afterwards reinstated as Governor of Baghdad.2

When the Turkish prisoners brought the news of the battle of Baghavard
to 'AH Pasha, the Governor of Ganja, he at once asked for quarter, and
surrendered the fortress on the 9th July, 173^: he had stubbornly defended
it for eight and a half months. 'Ali Pasha and the Qalgha Path Girai were
kindly received by Nadir, who allowed 'All Pasha to go to Qars and Path
Girai to Tiflis. Ishaq Pasha, the Governor of Tiflis, soon followed 'All
Pasha's example and surrendered on the iath August.8 Erivan alone
held out; as will be seen below (p, 91), it did not yield until the 3rd
October.

For the second time Nadir proceeded to Qars, which he besieged for a
month, cutting off the water-supply and ravaging the country from the
Arpa Chai to Erzeroum.4

Before describing the concluding phase of the Turkish war, some
mention must be made not only of the march of the Khan of the Crimea
to Daghistan in the summer and autumn of 1735, but also of Nadir's
naval aims and of the Persian attempt to capture Basra in April of that
year.

In 1734, as in 1732, the Porte requested the Khan of the Crimea to
march to Daghistan. The Khan excused himself on the grounds that
funds were lacking and that his men were unwilling to go5; it appears
that, in reality, he was loth to quit the vicinity of the Polish frontier,
as he wished to intervene in the war of the Polish Succession on the side
of Stanislaus Leszczynski.6 Early in May, 173^, the Porte issued
stringent orders for the Khan to march with .80,000 men to Daghistan
and thence into Shirvan, and this time it would brook no refusal. When
Nepluiev, the Russian Resident at Constantinople, and his assistant,
Veshniakov, heard of these orders, they strongly protested to 'Ali Pasha,
1 T.N., p. 159.

* Otter, Vol. I, p. 32.

9 T.N., p. 160.  The Catholicos Abraham (p. 278) and Sekhnia Chkheidze (H. fo la G.t Vol. II,

Part II, p. 48) both give the same date as Mirza Mahdi.
4 T.N., p. 160 and Catholicos Abraham, p. 277: the latter states that Nadir transferred 6,000

Armenian families from the district of Qar? to Khurasan.
1 Tagebuch des Russisch-Kaisertichen Generalfetd-MarsGhttU Grafen von Munnich (Leipzig, 1843),

p. 131.
4 Butkov, Vol. I, p. 123 (Butkov is guilty of an anachronism here, as he states that Qaplan Girai

started for Daghistan in November, 1733).